A character comes down with an illness (or alternatively, broken a limb and has a cast on), and may be bedridden. This may be in order to pad out the season, to provide an excuse as to why that character isn't present when their skills or powers would wrap up the plot neatly in a few minutes, or to give the love interest an excuse to nurse him or her back to health. In romances, the sickness is all about the worried, tender nursing. And in the comedies, they frequently end with the sick character now all healthy and looking forward to doing whatever... only for their friend to suddenly start sneezing.

Cures for this illness can vary wildly by genre, and obtaining the cure may take up a small plot arc of its own. These illnesses are rarely, if ever, fatal. The illness also mostly never has lasting implications for the main Story Arc, though it's not beyond the pale for a Monster of the Week to be responsible for a character illness or find a way to exploit the opportunity.

Subverted in Super S: it looks like Mamoru is coming down with a very serious fever, but it's actually due to the influence of the Black Moon Circus on Earth. He can't join the Senshi in the Grand Finale since he's bed-ridden, and only gets better when Nehelenia is defeated and sealed away.

In the Cardcaptor Sakura episode "Sakura's Dizzy Fever Day", Sakura has a fever but tries to perform her school and Magical Girl duties anyway. She can only do it with Syaoran and Meiling's help (and Syaoraneven gets angry at her because she's not taking care of herself properly, and Meiling has to support Sakura physically so she can seal the Card). Then she totally passes out in bed. Good thing that Nadeshiko's ghost uses her own energy to help her a little.

Junjo Romantica has a chapter in which Nowaki was sick so of course Hiroki freaked out taking care of him. Slight subversion, however, because even though it was invoked for the cliche nursing tropes, the next day Nowaki reveals he wasn't sick at all, just a little tired.

Otani gets a fever in a chapter/episode of Lovely Complex, so Risa shows up to help him out. And then they have an Accidental Kiss, when he passes out on her and their lips meet.

One Piece: An entire ARC arises from Nami getting seriously sick, which leads to the rest of the Straw Hats meeting the reindeer doctor Tony Tony Chopper, who eventually joins them.

There was an episode where Brock gets sick, leaving Ash and Misty to do the jobs he'd usually do. It's much harder than he makes it look like, and by the end of the episode they've resolved to be more grateful to him. Also crosses over with a Fever Dream Episode as we're treated to scenes of what goes on in Brock's head during his illness.

An Orange Islands episode left Ash and Tracey paralyzed by a wild Vileplume's Stun Spore, and Misty had to race to find the Salveyo Weed cure before James and Meowth (Jessie had run into the exact same Vileplume).

And a Sinnoh episode had Dawn's Pachirisu come down with a fever, though this was from an electricity buildup (Pikachu had something similar twice before).

Previously, there's another episode where May's Munchlax and James's Chimecho both get sick and have to be taken care of by an old couple whom James lived with as a child. It's more seriousthan usual since James, for all of his Camp and "Laughably Evil" tendences, actually worries a LOT when Chimecho is sick, and even ends up bonding with May over their common worries. He has to leave Chimecho there, but then a Mime Jr. who's owned by the same old couple gets attached to him and joins him alongside the Terrible Trio.

In another Sinnoh episode, Jessie is too sick to participate in a Pokémon Contest, so James disguises himself as her and competes in her stead. And he even wins.

Chrono Crusade has an episode where Chrono comes down with a fever after exerting himself too much. Rosette runs all over town trying to find a fever represent that's "strong enough for a demon"—only to push herself so hard that she gets sick in the process. And then it turns out the only cure is for Rosette to kiss him. Which she does.

The pre-second-season OVA episode of Spice and Wolf had Holo getting sick and Lawrence taking care of her, using different kinds of foods to balance her humors in true medieval fashion. This episode also featured an interesting variant on a usual Sick Episode trope: Holo collapses dramatically with a fever, but when she wakes up, the first thing Lawrence does is scold her angrily for not mentioning that she felt bad earlier. If she had done that while they were traveling, he explains, she could have died.

Ranma gets a superpowerful mutation of the common cold after Happosai gives it to him. How powerful? It makes his skin so hot it boils water instantly on contact. Later on, it mutates again so that it flash-freezes any moisture, even from the air around him. At least he (or she, at the time) got to be coddled and babied around by his mother, Nodoka.

There's another episode in which Happosai himself gets badly sick. It turns out that he's dying, and then everyone gets sick when he starts absorbing their Life Energy to hold on to life. Akane is the only one who doesn't fall ill, so she has to find the cure under the guidance of Mio, the local Oracular Urchin.

For one chapter in the manga, Ukyo is sick in bed with a cold. Ranma, Akane, and Konatsu work in the restaurant, until she's well again. This is also used in the anime, only without Konatsu since he doesn't show up there.

In Lucky Star Kagami gets sick with a cold and is bedridden for an episode. Konata even visits her... to ask for her homework so she can copy it. Later Konata claims to have a spring cold, but Kuroi-sensei doesn't buy it. She's really sick.

Ouran High School Host Club has a chapter in the manga where Tamaki is in bed with a cold. His fever also leads him to kiss Haruhi's forehead, mimicking what his father Yuzuru had just done. He says it's all right because he's Haruhi's father and drifts off to sleep. After recovering he doesn't remember doing it.

Gintama has a Sick Episode where Tae, Gintoki, Kagura, Kondo, Ayame, and Hasegawa all get sick with the same alien virus, while Shinpachi has to tend to them all. This being Gintama, however, Katsura, of all people, eventually cures the entire gang while serving as a cross between "Ill Smith" and Barack Obama ("Yes, we can!" indeed.). Afterwards, everyone except Shinpachi accidentally turns into "Ill Smiths". To top it all off, the whole sequence was just part of a flashback within the real sick episode. Suffice to say, this series refuses to play its tropes straight.

In Yotsuba&!, Yotsuba gets sick the day her father was supposed to take her to a ranch to learn where milk comes from, leading to a meltdown and day spent in bed. No romantic hijinks, fortunately — just more TV than usual. She finally gets to go a week later.

One episode revolves around Izumi having a bad toothache, and having to work through it (including putting on her helmet).

The public bath episode, mentions that Kumagami is out sick (making Noa the only female SV 2 member).

Tokyo Mew Mew has two, first Ichigo gets a bad cold, later Purin gets a fever from pushing herself far too hard. The girl's only 12, after all.

Kaoru gets sick in Ai Yori Aoshi after running out into the rain to rescue Aoi, who has skipped on Miyabi. Later in the series, Aoi herself crashes out with illness, and the group tries to cover for their resident Yamato Nadeshiko. It's harder than she makes it look.

In Seitokai Yakuindomo, Takatoshi gets sick, and Shino presumes it's because he lent her his umbrella while it was raining, forcing him to go home without one.

Yomi is bedridden in an episode of Azumanga Daioh due to a fever. She misses out on a trip with the girls to a theme park because of it.

Michiko to Hatchin. Michiko collapses while driving her scooter, and then tries to shrug off her fever by claiming she just has a very "hot body". Since she's on the run from the law, Hatchin has to enlist a shady back alley doctor/mystic to cure her.

GUN×SWORD has not one but two such episodes, giving each member of the show's central pairing a chance to care for the other. At the end of the first Sick Episode, Van finally learns Wendy's name; in the second one, he opens up and talks about his past. Given that he's The Stoic, it's a pretty significant breakthrough.

Happens a few times in K-On!—first, Ritsu gets sick after a falling-out with Mio, and then after Mio and the others visit her, Yui catches her cold too, which very nearly ruins their upcoming live performance. The next time, Yui gets sick again, but she gets better quickly and her little sister Ui winds up catching the cold. This helps Yui learn An Aesop about appreciating what you have. When Sawa-chan gets sick, the girls visit her home without actually asking her and everyone but Mugi gets sick afterwards.

This trope sees unorthodox usage in Gundam SEED in an episode where the Le Creuset team is on leave at the PLANTs. While everyone else is going about their business unaware, Rau himself is curled up in his room, laid out with a mystery affliction. He's still expected to work, and no one comes to help him—even if those who cared about him knew, they wouldn't be able to do anything for his sake, after all. Life just sucks like that when you're a clone.

In an episode of Ichigo Mashimaro, Chika has a cold, and Nobue takes care of her part of the time. When she's gone, Miu pretends to be a doctor. When Nobue returns, Miu has her pretend to be a doctor while the girls who aren't sick take turns at pretending to be patients. Then Miu actually does get sick...

FAKE has two separate sick chapters, one in which Ryo is sick and Dee takes care of him, and a later one in which the roles are reversed and Ryo takes care of Dee.

In GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class, Namiko stays home with a cold, but most of it is about her friends coping with her absence and reacting to her texts.

In the original Digimon series, Taichi is temporarily sent back home with Agumon, and they have to take care of his little sister Hikari who is sick in bed while their parents are out visiting their also ill grandma. Later Hikari has a relapse, this time with much more severe symptoms, and as Sora and Biyomon take care of her Taichi, Koushirou and their Digimon have to Find the Cure. It's made even harder with MugenDramon chasing after them.

In Oniisama e..., Rei catches a massive fever when she stays under a heavy and cold rain for hours after Fukiko tricks her into doing so. Nanako finds her and manages to bring her home after much struggle, and discovers her Roomfull Of Crazy. Later, Kaoru drops by and barely manages to keep her in bed so she can give her Intimate Healing via body heat. For worse, Rei is still ill and feverish few later... and it culminates with he trying to go through a Suicide Pact with Nanako, mistaking her for Fukiko.

In Gakuen Babysitters, Ryuuichi falls ill over the summer, leaving him in the care of his adoptive grandmother and his brother Kotarou.

In Sangatsu no Lion, Rei catches the common cold at the wake of the New Year, leading to the Kawamoto sister's bringing him into their home for a couple of days to take care of him.

Chapter 5 of Girl Friends had Akko being sick with a cold, leading to the first time that Mari hung out with her new circle of friends without Akko present. This led to Mari's realization that their friends considered Mari to be Akko's best friend, even though they've only met this year.

Heiji's introductory episode happens when Conan/Shinichi has a massive cold. He shows up bringing a special Osakan liquor as a gift for Kogoro... and tries to feed some to Conan since it's supposed to double as a folklore cure for colds, but he only manages to give him some sips before an horrified Ran interrupts. As the case goes, Conan's sympthoms get worse and worse, and he collapses in pain. But it turns out that the chemical reactions within his ill body, caused by the brief alcohol consumption... are actually reversing his forced shrinking, which lets him become Shinichi and best Heiji while resolving the case of the week. Too bad the effects stop right after the case is done, leading to a brief Tear Jerker in which the shrinking Shinichi says he wants to stay older a bit so he can speak to Ran by himself...

More than one episode happens in hospitals as well. So do the arcs involving Ill Boy Eisuke Hondou.

The Pretty Cure franchise in general has quite a few of these with the mascots (Mepple,Chiffon, and so forth) and some with the Cures.

Suite Pretty Cure ♪ has an episode where Ellen got sick on her first day of school for no reason at all.

Doki Doki Pretty Cure had one where Mana overworked herself into a fever on the day of the school festival (however, it looked more like Rikka gave Mana a fever by knocking her over on purpose!). She still wants to attend the festival, but Aguri then tells her the story of The Happy Prince, and tells her she does not want her to suffer his fate.

The final of season 1 of Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? has Cocoa become sick and nursed by Chino, at the same time Sharo is sick and being nursed by Chiya, then Chino gets sick and is nursed by Cocoa. Truly it is the ultimate Sick Episode.

Peter was always getting sick for an issue or two, but then his spider-strength would allow him to recover in record time. Unfortunately, he always happened to get this right when the Monster of the Week showed up.

A special mention goes out to the Grim Hunt storyline, in which the villains actually plan their attack to take place when he's sick using the precognitive abilities of Madame Web.

Animorphs has this in the form of the book "The Sickness". Ax gets an Andalite appendicitis-like condition called Yamphut. The rest of the gang get flu-like symptoms and get put out of commission one by one-until only Cassie is left to carry out the rescue the team was trying to accomplish to free a Yeerk Peace Movement ally who was about to be executed by Visser Three as a traitor. Once Cassie returns with Aftran, the Yeerk must go inside Ax's head to direct Cassie as she does brain surgery to remove Ax's ready-to-burst tria gland.

The Baby-Sitters Club: Most notably Stacey's Emergency, Get Well Soon, Mallory, and the subplot to Dawn's Wicked Stepsister.

In Warrior Cats, most of ThunderClan became ill in Long Shadows with the deadly disease greencough; we see the healthy cats attempting to keep up with all the patrols and hunting, and cat after cat becomes sick.

Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", where Holmes catches Yellow Fever. At least until the Reveal that he was faking it.

Galaxy of Fear: The Planet Plague is a Tash-focused book. Her brother spends most of it sick with a bad case of the flu, either running around denying that he's ill, lying half-conscious at best with a high fever, or floating in a bacta tank feeling better but bored.

Robert March fell sick while still at war and that threw a big wrench in the family dynamics since Marmee had to go there and leave the girls alone.

And for worse, Beth contracts scarlet fever (an illness that was VERY serious back then). She recovers but has been much weaker since that. Years later, it causes her early death.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid has "Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles," a dialogue for one in which Achilles is telephoned by the Tortoise, who is apparently suffering from a headache. (The readers only get Achilles' side of the conversation.)

Eight is put out of action this way in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (in the Eighth Doctor Adventures) for quite a while. Unlike Ten below, he's physically incapacitated for about two months and coughs up black bile. And he has horrible hallucinations, his eyes eventually get black, cloudy stuff on them, and everyone thinks he's going to die. Although his illness rather ruins his own wedding, he doesn't die... no, Anti-Villain Sabbath kicks the dog rather a bit by saving his life by means of Meatgrinder Surgery, ripping his heart out bare-handed, mostly because he thinks it'll be useful.

Tomcat Blue Eyes Diaries: Lil' tomcat Blue Eyes eats "ew stuff" in chapter four and gets very ill. He's taken to the vet, but he always spits his medicine. His human is really sad and Blue Eyes decides to die. Eventually he's so sick that he doesn't care what happens to him and lets the human put the pill deep in his throat. He figures it doesn't taste so bad that way, and after a time he gets well.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 episode "Killed By Death." Buffy passes out while fighting due to a flu, and she goes to the hospital, where she fights a monster that preys on sick children.

The Charmed season 2 episode "Awakened." Piper comes down with a serious disease and her health slowly deteriorates throughout the episode.

The 8th season CSI episode "Grissom's Divine Comedy" has Grissom come down with the flu. His rest is interrupted by a case on which the grand jury indictment of a gang leader hinges. Oh, and the flu is getting around to the others on the team too.

"Mr. Monk Stays in Bed". And still has to solve the murder of the week and has a musical Get Well card that just won't stop.

Played straight, averted and played with in Hannah Montana where illnesses have been used seriously, mocked, faked and lampshaded.

Regeneration in Doctor Who is a violent process, so the first episode for many Doctors was nine parts disorientation and horizontality.

The Tenth Doctor spends most of "The Christmas Invasion" unconscious in bed at Rose's house while he recovers from the recent physical trauma of his regeneration, occasionally gasping up wisps of yellow energy. Which apparently inconveniently attracted an alien invasion. It's interesting to note that this is Tennant's debut episode and he spent most of it unconscious. Ten's the most dramatic case, but he's not the only one...

Three falls out of the TARDIS and into a coma. While still in hospital he's kidnapped and escapes, only to be shot in time for the cliffhanger.

Five nearly didn't regenerate at all, and spends most of his first three episodes talking in non-sequiturs and falling over on people.

Six is physically fine, and mentally homicidal (which rather biased fans against his character, though he's back to himself by the end).

Eight has amnesia. This, however, will prove to be congenital.

And Twelve, who really shouldn't be alive, keels over on arrival and spends the first third of his episode in bed.

There was one episode where Dorothy had what was eventually diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome. This wasn't done for laughs so much as it was to spread awareness about what was then a very misunderstood condition, but it counts because by the end of the episode she was medicated and feeling better, and the issue was never raised in the series again.

There's also the episode The Flu, where they all get sick and spend most of the episode arguing.

In the Key West episode The Great Unknown, the entire town of Key West (with the significant exceptions of Savannah, Jo Jo, and Sheriff Cody) succumb to a flu epidemic. At first, it seems Seamus O'Neill is likewise immune, but in the end he gets so sick he almost dies. He doesn't die, but when his fever finally breaks he brings back a message for Gumbo from his late wife, Fifi.

Al and Kelly of Married... with Children fake being sick to get out of visiting Peggy's family. Naturally, Kelly gets sick anyway, and Al has to babysit her back to health. Which he does - just in time to get sick himself.

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Kimberly is sick with a cold during season 3's tripart opener, "A Friend In Need". She has to stay behind resting while the other Rangers travel to Edenoi. However, Zedd and Rita send down a monster, forcing Kimberly to fight in spite of her illness. It's a tough fight, but the monster catches her cold and has to return to the moon so that Finster can cure it.

In the Muppet Show episode with Roger Miller, There was an outbreak of "Cluck-Itis". A disease when somebody sneezes, They are turned into a chicken.

In the Muppet Show episode with Dizzy Gillespie, Statler was sick of the show(and not the flu as Waldorf had confirmed) and was unable to attend(because of how sick of it he was). But his sidekick Waldorf's wife Astoria used Stalter's theater ticket to sit with her husband Waldorf in the balcony.

The Good Guys: Episode 3! Possibly the show with the earliest episode for this to occur. Dan Stark starts the episode with a potent flu, and by the end of the episode, not only his partner, but practically the entire force, as well as the bad guy. Bonus points for handcuffing himself to the bad guy before passing out while he was being strangled.

Episode 8 of Downton Abbey Season 2 deals with the 1918-1919 flu pandemic; several characters get sick: Lavinia, Cora, and Mr. Carson. Mr. Carson has a mild case, Cora is desperately ill but pulls through, and Lavinia seems okay until she suddenly goes into respiratory distress and dies in what seems to double as a Death by Despair after having found out that Mary and Matthew are in love with each other.

Grey's Anatomy had Meredith in bed for a few weeks to recover from surgery, as her alcoholic father needed a liver transplant and she was his donor. In reality, it was because her actress' pregnancy.

"Soul Purpose" has Angel lying in bed the whole time hallucinating after being attacked by a parasitic demon, as the actor was recovering from surgery at the time.

In the Stargate SG-1 episode Nemesis, the character Daniel Jackson has his appendix removed and sits out the episode while the others save the Earth from the Replicators. The reason for this is the actor Michael Shanks had his appendix removed and the writers/producers thought "Why not throw it in, easiest explanation".

Star Trek: Voyager. The Doctor programs himself with flu symptoms because he wants to understand his patients who keep griping about their aches and pains. He's still the same Dr. Jerk he always was, until an apparent malfunction means his symptoms don't go away when they're programmed to, throwing him into a panic. Then Kes reveals she tweaked the program so it would last a bit longer than expected to teach the Doctor some proper empathy.

Punky Brewster is stricken with appendicitis in the episode "Ouch," and the thought of being operated on frightens her to tears.

Sleepy Hollow had an episode in which a small boy traveling forward in time brought with him an ancient plague—-which quickly infected Ichabod, who spent much of the episode in a quarantine bed or staggering weakly after Abbie in an effort to save the day.

The Frasier episode "Frasier Crane's Day Off", in which Frasier overdoses on flu medication and becomes convinced Niles (who agreed to stand in for him despite disapproving of radio psychology) is plotting to steal his show. It's one of the funniest moments of the series.

Video Games

In Resonance of Fate, one of the three playable characters, Leanne, spends all of Chapter 6 bedridden with a cold while the other two protagonists try to retrieve cold medicine for her. Since the cold medicine is stored inside a permanently frozen wasteland dungeon, this is harder than it sounds.

Each of the girls fall ill on a rainy or snowy day when you reach a certain level of relationship with them.

This occurs in a couple of other entries to the series, too; in Animal Parade, a cutscene involves the player being unwell and their child looking after them, and in DS Cute, your husband will spend a day in bed ill if you ignore him for a certain amount of time.

The supports between Sain and Fiora have him at first flirting as usual and being rebuffed, but later (by the B support time) she sees him collapse and realizes that he's been protecting her despite being afflicted with a fever. Their A support has her worried for his health and recovery - by that time, Sain and Fiora are pretty much a couple, as said A support unlocks their shared ending in which they get married.

A platonic version happens in chapter 21, when Ninian's younger brother Nils passes out in a fortress near the desert... and then an enemy group attacks the crew. The following mission has Eliwood's/Hector's group protecting the collapsed kid alongside the fortress for at least 14 turns; if he gets ambushed and killed, it's a Non-Standard Game Over.

Happens off-screen in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. The supports between Kyle and Ephraim mention that, in the time between their B and A-level talks, Kyle was severely injured and Ephraim personally made sure he was well taken care of.

In Katawa Shoujo, Emi Ibarazaki and Rin Tezuka's paths share an event under the rain. Both girls get sick, and in each case Hisao will visit each of them. In Emi's path, Hisao will put her to bed and have his Love Epiphany, then will see Emi cry in her sleep as she has Bad Dreams about her Disappeared Dad; in Rin's, she will give him a "Shut Up" Kiss while under the effects of too-strong medicines, but he'll be Above the Influence and put her to bed too, leaving before she wakes up.

At some point in Danganronpa, Makoto Naegi comes down with a fever and has to stay in bed so he can recover. And then he gets attacked by a Malevolent Masked Man.

In the fifth Sakura Wars game, this is what Shinjiro's date with Ratchet Altair quickly becomes, mainly because of Shinjiro standing out in the cold waiting for her for too long.

In True Love Junai Monogatari, if you have high Art by the day the swimming race takes place and have spoken to Miyuki Tanaka aka the local Ill Girl before, she will show up at the beach to paint the scene... and then pass out right before the event begins. In a subversion, you don't get to take care of her; the one who raises to the challenge is your Patient Childhood Love Interest Mikae Morikawa, who doubles as Miyuki's best friend.

The episode "Storytelling," Jake comes down with a flu-like illness, and sends Finn on a mission to go on an epic adventure, for the purpose of gathering material for an epic story to tell bedridden Jake. At the end, this results in Caretaker Reversal, when Finn catches Jake's sick.

"What Have You Done?" had all of the Candy Citizens coming down with the Freezer-Burn Flu.

In "Simon and Marcy," Simon had to search for chicken soup on post-war Earth to feed to a young, sick Marceline.

"Wizards Only, Fools" has Starchy sick in bed with a cold, and Princess Bubblegum going to Wizard City to obtain a cure.

Arthur: "Arthur's Chickenpox"; "Is There a Doctor in the House?"; "Sick as a Dog".

Danny Phantom has a different take on the sick episode plot in that everyone but the hero (and his friend, but that's due to his Day in the Limelight position) is sick with a cold. Danny and Tucker end up catching it in the last stretch of the episode anyway.

An episode of Daria features Daria being hospitalized due to a mysterious rash (which is caused by thoughts about her then-love interest Trent).

The episode "A Case Of Ed" is a subversion, as Double-D only believes himself to be ill. Double-D, a hypochondriac, worries himself sick by obsessively reading an encyclopedia of rare diseases- and Eddy and Ed join in the fun and tell Double-D how awful he looks. He believes he has the symptoms of "Lacadaisy-Cathro Disease," and automatically becomes pale, weak, and sickly.

Fanboy and Chum Chum has the episode "Chicken Pox", in which Kyle has a magical version of the titular ailment, and Fanboy and Chum Chum are Nurses With Good Intentions. Then there is "Cold War", in which Fanboy and Chum Chum have, well, colds.

Futurama, "Cold Warriors". Fry comes down with a cold. No big deal, except that the common cold had been eradicated 500 years before, leading to a mass quarantine and a frantic search for a vaccine.

In the Gravedale High episode "Long Day's Gurney into Night", Sid has a nasty cough and since there are no nurses at the school at the time, there's no choice but to take him to a human hospital, where it's revealed that he has tonsillitis. The other teenagers are worried about Sid and can't go to that hospital, but Max Schneider coerces them to go by faking being comatose. As a result, the teens seem to like the hospital.

Hey Arnold! has one, where Helga gets hysteria after reading a quack book on diseases (she fears she's caught Monkey-Nucleosis after being kissed by a weird organ grinder's monkey). She think she's going to die, and forgives all her friends on her "deathbed" and is about to confess her love to Arnold... until Pheobe corrects her.

There was a half-length episode of Kim Possible where Shego had to call in sick. It actually started with the Tweebs, then Kim caught it, then she passed it to Shego while they were fighting, so Shego caught it...by the end of the episode, pretty much the entire cast was in bed.

One episode had Candace bedridden due to a flulike illness, despite the series taking place in the summer. Her best friend Stacy takes Candace's usual role in the show of trying to bust the title characters, but gets sidetracked by how much fun she's having with them.

Another episode has Phineas, Ferb, Baljeet, and Isabella all bedridden and playing the world's best video game. Buford wasn't really sick at the time, though, he was just lazy. He gets sick at the end anyway.

Raw Toonage: In the Marsupilami short Jungle Fever, Marsupilami tries to cure his sick purple gorilla friend, Maurice. And Maurice's sneeze blows Marsupilami to a lion who lies in a hammock.

The Spongebob Squarepants episode "Suds". Spongebob comes down with a bad case of "The Suds," the sponge equivalent of the common cold. Not much fun for poor Spongebob, who's feeling terrible throughout the whole episode, but Hilarity Ensues anyway, as expected.

Stanley - "Sick Day Stanley," in which Stanley has a cold and can't go out to play baseball. He learns about the importance of getting rest when you're sick.

Taz-Mania: "Feed a Cold". Allowing the Platypus Brothers to attempt to cure you is a spectacularly bad idea.

In Time Squad, Otto gets sick with a cold, leaving the two incompetent time cops Buck Tuddrussel and Larry to help Benjamin Franklin. When they do find Ben Franklin, they help him invent the light bulb. Realizing that didn't help at all, they go back home to tell Otto what happened. Furious, Otto tells him that Edison was the one who invented the lightbulb and to quickly destroy the one they helped build, and that the mission was clearly about getting Franklin to help write the Declaration of Independence. They end up dragging the kid out of bed to recite the first paragraph of the Declaration to the founding fathers, right before passing out.

U.S. Acres had two episodes in it's animated adaptation, "Swine Trek" and "Bad Time Story". Besides those episodes, the comic was chock-full of sneezing comics, and Roy has a dust allergy in the storybook "Wade's Haunted Halloween".

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